Work & commute · Montezuma

Work & commute in Montezuma, KS

Most working residents leave Montezuma for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Cimarron (9%), Dodge City (9%) and Montezuma (7%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

53 of 305 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 252 Montezuma residents head out of town to work, 53 work right here, and 450 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Montezuma.

252live here, work elsewhere

53live and work here

450work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Montezuma goes to work

Montezuma (in town)right here

17%53

Cimarron16.1 mi away

9%28

Dodge City26.3 mi away

9%26

Montezuma2 mi away

7%22

Copeland8.7 mi away

7%20

Cimarron16.3 mi away

5%16

Garden City34.4 mi away

5%15

Copeland10.4 mi away

3%9

Sublette23 mi away

2%5

Meade22.1 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%107

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Montezuma commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

25%

35%

19%

22%

25%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Montezuma is a job hub

1.65jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Montezuma are

503 jobs are based in Montezuma. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Montezuma’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Montezuma

503 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Montezuma residents hold

305 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month52%

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Jobs based in Montezuma, 2013 → 2023: 502 → 503. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.